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Jul. 5th, 2008 11:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsOkay, so I have been hearing people talk about the cracktasticness of Kaori Yuki's Angel Sanctuary for many years now, and I thought that there was no way it could live up to the hype. I had been spoilered! I thought I was prepared for the insanity!
Ohhhhhh how wrong I was.
I ended up reading the entire run in about a week - twenty volumes, I think - because at the end of every issue, something so insane and inexplicable would occur that I had to obsessively continue to find out what the hell was going on. Also I fell in love with Kurai, the tiny tomboy demon princess dragon master. (She is not the main character. The main character is Setsuna who is a reincarnation of a rebellious lady angel named Alexiel and who is also in love with his sister. There are also a multitude of other characters, the vast majority of whom have at least one secret identity, often including a gender change or past life as an inanimate object or long-lost angry tentacle eyeball fetus twin in a secret laboratory. I can't describe the plot because all the best parts are probably spoilers, and anyways I have a suspicion it would end in flailing and cries of "and then the tiny cannibal angel decides to run away with the tentacle monster who was going to eat her and it's adorable!') I have no idea what happened at the end, but that appears to be okay because no one else in the world has any idea either! The important part is the insanity in the middle, most of which actually manages to be strangely touching as well as hilarious. Except for the bits where people demand that their beloved zombie mentor figures eat their shoulders because they just want to be of use to them SO MUCH. That's just hilarious.
Also I really feel the need for an icon of Kurai giving Heaven the finger.
If this write-up sounds insane and incoherent, this is just because I am attempting to give a feel for the experience of reading this manga . . . um.
Ohhhhhh how wrong I was.
I ended up reading the entire run in about a week - twenty volumes, I think - because at the end of every issue, something so insane and inexplicable would occur that I had to obsessively continue to find out what the hell was going on. Also I fell in love with Kurai, the tiny tomboy demon princess dragon master. (She is not the main character. The main character is Setsuna who is a reincarnation of a rebellious lady angel named Alexiel and who is also in love with his sister. There are also a multitude of other characters, the vast majority of whom have at least one secret identity, often including a gender change or past life as an inanimate object or long-lost angry tentacle eyeball fetus twin in a secret laboratory. I can't describe the plot because all the best parts are probably spoilers, and anyways I have a suspicion it would end in flailing and cries of "and then the tiny cannibal angel decides to run away with the tentacle monster who was going to eat her and it's adorable!') I have no idea what happened at the end, but that appears to be okay because no one else in the world has any idea either! The important part is the insanity in the middle, most of which actually manages to be strangely touching as well as hilarious. Except for the bits where people demand that their beloved zombie mentor figures eat their shoulders because they just want to be of use to them SO MUCH. That's just hilarious.
Also I really feel the need for an icon of Kurai giving Heaven the finger.
If this write-up sounds insane and incoherent, this is just because I am attempting to give a feel for the experience of reading this manga . . . um.
